Posted on 05/03/2020 11:14:46 AM PDT by ransomnote
Desperate times do indeed call for desperate measures. For the Democrats, a truly desperate time could come if Joe Biden is forced to withdraw from the presidential race. While the former vice president is the presumptive Democratic nominee to face off against President Trump in November, his nomination is still far from official.
Some Democrats tell me they fear that Biden’s political survival is getting more problematic with each passing day. They cite three main issues. The first is their concern that an allegation of sexual assault leveled against Biden by former staffer Tara Reade won’t go away anytime soon. If anything, it appears to be about to gain a new life.
Next, they worry that another shoe could drop regarding questions related to Biden’s son Hunter and his business dealings. Lastly, some Democrats are concerned about Biden’s age and possible cognitive issues — a concern that some also have expressed about Trump.
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The process is actually fairly straightforward. If Biden quits the race right before the convention, delegates would select a new nominee. If he drops out right after the convention, members of the Democratic National Committee would pick their replacement candidate.
Who might be in consideration to become the new nominee — and who would be selected as the vice presidential running mate? Several likely combinations come to mind, starting in many minds with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but one particular, truly out-of-the-box combination stops the discussion in its tracks: Hillary Clinton as the nominee and Barack Obama as her running mate.
> Obama is constitutionally ineligible to be ELECTED to the office of president. <
Now that’s interesting. I wonder why they said “elected to”, and not “eligible for”. I guess they were just a little careless there.
From the 22nd A:
“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice...”
I can’t think of anyone that tags all your listed prerequisites. Anyone in mind?
I still think Hillary might be it....but only if they can get ‘national mail-by-vote’, because then it’d be a shoe-in for her due to massive vote fraud.
Of course it is possible. It is not even a sure thing that the USSC could declare it unConstitutinal. The writers of the Amendment did not envision such a scenario and did not including wording explicitly forbidding it.
"But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."
The 12th amendment was ratified in 1804.
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